A Conversation with Cori Bargmann
- Jan Witkowski
Cori Bargmann is Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Associate Director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior at the Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- Executive Director of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
Jan Witkowski:Tell us about the system you're interested in.
Dr. Bargmann:My work is with the simplest animal being discussed at this meeting, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. It has only 302 neurons but is nevertheless a real animal. It moves around, it decides what it likes and doesn't like, it learns from past experience and uses that to affect future decisions. And we can understand those kinds of basic processes using this very simple nervous system, and relate what's going on in an individual's brain to its behavior.
Jan Witkowski:So, what aspect of its behavior do you study?
Dr. Bargmann:Most of my lab studies the response to odors, and that's …
